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This sci-fi author had a secret life as psychological warfare mastermind

boingboing.net This sci-fi author had a secret life as psychological warfare mastermind

A celebrated science fiction author who spun wild tales of subversive cat women and psychic sex parties led a shocking double life — as the military mastermind behind America's psychological…

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Cordwainer Smith.
- Imagine looking at your newborn baby and saying, "Yeah...you look like a Cordwainer."
  
  "Cordwainer. CORDWAINER! LEAVE BASKETWEAVER ALONE AND COME AND HELP OYSTERSHUCKER THIS MINUTE!"
  
  It was a pen name.
- I'm sorry, you didn't phrase your response in the form of a question.
Are all BoingBoing articles so scant on content these days?
- Sad but true. When BoingBoing first started there were some nice long articles that would make it into the feed, proper journalism mixed in with the fluff.
  
  Like for example, https://boingboing.net/profits_of_fear.html
  
  Things just kept getting more "short form" until I stopped visiting entirely. Damn shame
This is the which of the what-he-did

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